@Light0ut1109 what are you on about ? This was the Dunlop curves at Le Mans in 2011! Not sure if your serious or playing stupid but these cars have never raced Watkins glen!!! I've got this race on DVD and watch le mans every year (went in 2009) so I'm pretty confident this is le mans :)
McNIsh had a hell of a luck to escape uninjured but all that bunch of debris crashing behind the wall could have killed some bystander too...unbelievable nobody got hit.
Can you imagine taking your shots and see the Audi get bigger and bigger REAL QUICK. Thinking, of F*** no time to run, lets at least finish the shots and die then....OMG And then the release, "Wuhuuu, MADE IT!" Just unbelievable lucky all these guys. Even the wheel could kill you in a split second.
and then there is the carbon fiber bits. When the Carbon breaks it forms some nasty sharp edges. It is light alright but man it can cut you easily...just....WOW. So glad the driver made it and doesn't have to live with having killed somebody in this. Bad chain of incidents.
It was physics people, no "God" was involved the majority of the weight was behind the barrier, thus when the car came to a stop atop the barrier, some force, probably the angle of the barrier turned the car, thus the weight was the determining factor in the fall of the car.
@Bugattiveyron2fast Do i have to in order to explain physics to a couple of no-brain youtube commentors? no! stop basing your lives off of a 2,000 year old fairy tale...
@Bugattiveyron2fast i have to buy a fictional book to understand cars... and BELIEVE IT. the true problem with our world, people take fiction as truth.
Amazing to see how the Peugeot crew got worried about the crash too. It shows that even though they compete for different companies, there's a true friendship outside the races or where someone gets in trouble.
wow, its amazing to think his only injury was a graze- from where he scratched himself on a peice of broken carbon fibre as he climbed from the wreckage! Was at la sarthe when this happened, the spectators reactions were priceless!
Wondering why we only see an on board view from the number 1 Audi?? Surely mcnish had a camera in his car aswell so why have we never seen the footage???
Look at the guy in the light blue vest at 2:33. A tire is flying up in the air about to come down on his head and he don't have the slightest idea. He's looking off in the other direction. I finally hits the ground just a few feet away. C'mon, man, you got to pay attention.
I think Le Mans 2011 was like 1993 in F1. Two miracles, everybody is ok. But next year, Audi should change the visibility of the driver in R18 cockpit. I don't want of a new Imola 1994.
@fdlmotorsports i dont think the visibility of the audi was a problem, it was the backmarker not checking his mirrors or observing the blue flags and maintaining his line, still its just one of those things that happens in racing, however i do think the in 2011 the cars are far far safer than in f1 in 1993
im hoping to be one day a le mans racer, and if this happens to i would say thank you god for saving my life , thank you for giving me a second chance of life, and my pant would have been full of shi..
I still cannot BELIEVE how lucky those people on the sidelines were, the way the car teetered on the top of the barrier. If it'd gone over they'd be dead. No idea how no one was killed in this.
@HuDaFuK One of the photographers dives for the ground and where he was gets showered in carbon. Stunning luck for none of them to get hit by debris too.
just imagine if that other car was one of the corvette's there will be a tsunami of total hatred towards the Americans from across the pond not that they already hate uncle sam from the get go and surely will get blame 100% on this matter. thanks goodness its one of the ferrari's
the problem is not different classes racing at the same time. As much as i respect Alan Macnish and what he has done for Porsche and what a great driver he is. wtf is he doing driving that hard when he is less then an hour 24 hour race
@MrPorsche91730 i have sat in the audi r18 at a car showing and you can BARELY see over the wheel wells. he wouldnt have been able to see the ferrari. Try laying down in your bathtub. its sort of like that
@mrtitsmigee i never said anything about him not being able to see the ferrari. i said wtf is he doing driving that hard less then an hour into a 24 hour race. i think he was just being careless and to agressive. a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead. and seeing how much faster the audi tdi is to a ferrari he should of wated for a better passing oppurnity
@MrPorsche91730 i never said anything about him not being able to see the ferrari. i said wtf is he doing driving that hard less then an hour into a 24 hour race. i think he was just being careless and to agressive. a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead. and seeing how much faster the audi tdi is to a ferrari he should of wated for a better passing oppurnity
@mrtitsmigee so you are saying the ferrari is still invisible no matter how far ahead it was? 20 car lenghts or 2? thats pure bs. he knew it was there. he might of not known exactly where the ferrari was, he might of lost sight of it when it was1 to 5 car lenghts ahead, but he knew it was there, if you get what im sayin. and like i said a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead, and you still dont understand the fact he is driving to hard to early.
my neighbor can agree with you. his A6 was on a head on collision course with a drunk driver on the highway. he stopped, and the drunk driver hit him doing 85. he had no injuries
The debate about having different car classes in the same race will go on and on, but if the Ferrari had just come out of the pits, not yet up to race pace and with one Audi rampaging towards it that it can ALREADY see, what the f.., sorry, what the hell was it doing going for the racing line to the apex?
It isn't a testament. It is 2011 motorsport. Why do people say that. People could get out 5 years ago with a bit more bruising that McNish. I hate it when people say that.
The rest of the world must learn from Imola circuit now, its's the safest one with CEA technics that can remove a car from a track in 30 seconds and got all the angles fully protected.
@ProGamingZon3 maybe so, however imola is now at days a relative slow track and they could not clean up THAT mess and fix the track in 30 min or 45 min for that matter
@ 2:27 you can see a Photographer getting hit by a piece of the car and dropping a $5,000 + lens right on the front of it, a lot of collateral damage.
@mteg9 There are at least two of them; one is wearing a red shirt with a blue vest over it (he drops a big white Canon lens) and the other is wearing an orange vest (he drops a big black lens which looks like a Nikon 200-400).
Many of these are full time but lot of these guys are only part time photographers. They do a good job but they have to buy their own gear. I have done work like this and the way you get paid, if you're lucky you can pay off your gear in a few years. Poor bastards.
@iragekao what, so the wheels come off from a mild sideswipe? Vorsprung durch technik, my ar$e ))) Mind you, Hannu Mikkola's one stayed on all fours even when he drove into Finnish pine trees, perhaps Ingolstadt just screwed them together better in the '80s...
Wow how scary was that!!! Shows how strong the cars are though as Mcnish walked away. Must have been terrifying for the people behind that wall as well..
Just before the main impact, McNish hit a different bit of tyre wall that got him slightly airborne and made the main impact so spectacular. If that wall had been even and didn't have that bit pushed forward, the car wouldn't have rolled. You can see it on the far right at 1:30.
whats up with the blasphemy.. I mean i might be as religious as a tube of lube but i can appreciate a complete lack of professionalism in a token female commentator.
@pvtdangles Shes not a 'token' female commentator, shes a professional racecar driver who knows the driver of the car, she just saw smashed to bits, very well!!! A fairly normal reaction, shes not a professional commentator, shes there for her....wait for it.......racing knowledge!
@pvtdangles did you really need to comment on that I thought it was a pretty normal reaction to a horrific crash that thankfully nobody got hurt in. You must be the token dickhead in the comments section!!
@soccer12811 Don't you mean that Dale Earnhardt died because he forgot his safety when going 200mph. But even without a HANS really that was a minor shunt.
@Racecarwrecks there is a big diffrence in this accident and ands dales accident. alan hit rear on and dale head on, rear on your head would hit the the seat, head on, you could break you neck (without hans that is)
@heinedenstore I never said it was similar, I just said that NASCAR officials wait for someone to die and then improve their safety, unlike Britain, France, Belgium (even though it usually is a death) and Germany. There are at least 3 accidents which should've made the HANS device mandatory and if you want I'll make a video and post it up to prove this. It is stupid to not make HANS mandatory and add SAFER barriers when Ernie Irvan crashes in '94 but do when Earnhardt dies in '01.
People need to quit bitching about Liz Halliday commenting on the race, shes afar better racecar driver than most of us could wish to be and a 100x more qualified to commentate than the keyboard jockeys mocking her
@BODKillinator to be honest i found it refreshing that someone had a more human view of such a gigantic accident. i applaud her for showing her emotion. i was doing the same fucking thing and i have no issue with it whatsoever.
@NOSRAB66 Bollocks. Is it "politically correct" to try to attract female viewers or should motorsport be an exclusively male domain? How can you grow a sport and an audience if you don't make entreaties to new markets?
That's the trouble with reductivist thinking; you end up throwing the baby out with the bath water.
it was the wheel folding under the car that stopped it going any further over the wall, quite haunting hearing the horror in the commentators voices when they see this happen
One of the bottom lines here is that Allan McNish survived this and will continue to be with us for some time. Let's not lose sight of that. He has become a real staple in road racing. I have my own view on this accident, but I'm grateful we haven't lost another (champion)...
@rmartin930 He probably had the best chance of anyone there, strapped into a heavily reinforced cockpit with all sorts of safety devices for just such an occasion. That crash could quite easily have killed several photographers who were just doing their jobs...
Nobody seems to be commenting on the new rear fin, which I think may have saved a few lives here. Like Bouchut at Eau Rouge in the 1000km this year in his Lola, I mean the car starts lifting as he's spewing sideways across the gravel. Without that fin it would likely have got air and started rolling before it reached the barrier and gone over it....THAT would have been terrible.
Also, that woman commentator almost ruined Le Mans for me this year. Everything with her sounded like soap opera.
To all those, who continue to harp on who was "at fault" and how McNish "probably didn't see the Ferrari..." Be assured...as the driver of a prototype car, behind another prototype, you CAN see a GT car over the top of that car in front of you; and, in this case, there was the advantage of having just come over the rise, which allowed a gaining advantage in this regard. McNish simply got a little carried away here.
Anthony Beltoise doubt that he even saw the blue flag, and saw the Audi's in front of him. but what ever Allen McNish was thinking from his mind, that was suposed to be his main key role of the game.
Which the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) should of took place investigating from the horrifiing crash which the Ferrari #58 again took out #1 audi R18 Mike Rockenfeller onboard that night, was even more severe and fright tragicing. moments as Mike Rockenfeller survives walking.
Do the old mulsanne or do they do the bugatti circuit?
IEATU95 2 days ago
@IEATU95 full le mans track including the massive mulsanne broken up by 2 chicanes ;)
780Motorsports 1 day ago
poor ferrari its so sad for it. what ? theres an audi in the crash, dont care about it
patricemarteaux 2 days ago
i laughed at the guy running away from the tires
VideoDude6475 1 week ago
@Light0ut1109 what are you on about ? This was the Dunlop curves at Le Mans in 2011! Not sure if your serious or playing stupid but these cars have never raced Watkins glen!!! I've got this race on DVD and watch le mans every year (went in 2009) so I'm pretty confident this is le mans :)
22kaka22gerrard 1 week ago
this was at watkins glen
Lights0ut1109 1 week ago
McNIsh had a hell of a luck to escape uninjured but all that bunch of debris crashing behind the wall could have killed some bystander too...unbelievable nobody got hit.
ursuss100 1 week ago
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johannes624 2 weeks ago
Welp, im never driving that car on Forza 4.
Seriously though that guy is fucking lucky.
PersistentResistance 2 weeks ago
@PersistentResistance He hit the ferrari so he flew of, not by it self! But still, he waas still as you said, fucking lucky! :)
johannes624 2 weeks ago
Italian (Ferrari) with 58 on it..........sign of the future?
nai2111 2 weeks ago
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nai2111 2 weeks ago
OOOMMMGGG!!!! the audi is OK?
MsMetaleroForever 2 weeks ago
Look at all the wreckage coming over that wall. What a luck that no one got seriously hurt...
dipstick3031 3 weeks ago
Maybe not a good idea to mix those 2 classes, just as why we dont see cooldown laps while qualifyings anymore. Reaction time is useless then.
CoughingPig 3 weeks ago
LOL @ Steward with blue shirt at 2:33 it was like: WTF? and then the wheel falls at his side! BALLS OF STEEL!!
Macgrady29 3 weeks ago
Can you imagine taking your shots and see the Audi get bigger and bigger REAL QUICK. Thinking, of F*** no time to run, lets at least finish the shots and die then....OMG And then the release, "Wuhuuu, MADE IT!" Just unbelievable lucky all these guys. Even the wheel could kill you in a split second.
oBseSsIoNPC 3 weeks ago
and then there is the carbon fiber bits. When the Carbon breaks it forms some nasty sharp edges. It is light alright but man it can cut you easily...just....WOW. So glad the driver made it and doesn't have to live with having killed somebody in this. Bad chain of incidents.
oBseSsIoNPC 3 weeks ago
It was physics people, no "God" was involved the majority of the weight was behind the barrier, thus when the car came to a stop atop the barrier, some force, probably the angle of the barrier turned the car, thus the weight was the determining factor in the fall of the car.
Xtrovid 3 weeks ago
@Xtrovid BELIEVE IN GOD!!!!!
Bugattiveyron2fast 3 weeks ago
@Bugattiveyron2fast Do i have to in order to explain physics to a couple of no-brain youtube commentors? no! stop basing your lives off of a 2,000 year old fairy tale...
Xtrovid 2 weeks ago
@Bugattiveyron2fast i have to buy a fictional book to understand cars... and BELIEVE IT. the true problem with our world, people take fiction as truth.
Xtrovid 1 week ago
@Xtrovid
It's a miracle that no one got hurt.
it seemed that someone pushed the car off the barriers
xXMasterXx500 3 weeks ago
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mattman937 4 weeks ago
the car was going off the barrier it was gonna fall over the photographers, from 0:15 to 0:16 it was the hand of God taking the car back
FORD427W 1 month ago 2
@FORD427W I was about the post the same thing. You can see a sign that says "GOD was here"
AshtonCoolman 1 month ago
@FORD427W Hand of God......Physics....... All the same thing right??????
rocketssss6 1 week ago
First 15seconds "omg, omg, omg, Omg" lo
PSNiLiekPokemon 1 month ago
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jiminey6969 1 month ago
3.43 to 3.45 bmw omg
sirishXT 1 month ago
Gotta love the photographer in blue walking away from there. He's got no idea what's happening until a freaking tyre comes bouncing after his ass!
TheRube216 1 month ago
bet there's a big brown patch in mcnish's pants :D he deserved a longer run in f1 :( shame...
tjmalalasekera 1 month ago
2:26 Lol At the guy trying to protect his motorcycle from the car instead of run for his life.
HisAirness14 1 month ago
It is horrible, but i actually laughed at cameraman being chased by a wheel
dujedcv1 1 month ago
ouch
Dmooreslotreviews 1 month ago
@thornrev - two men and a woman... Tho I'm not sure their names ATM (I'm terrible at remembering names)
SDLRob 1 month ago
a little bt like in final estination :P
MickeyKnox1982 1 month ago
lol the guy with the scooter was the luckiest one!
MickeyKnox1982 1 month ago
Amazing to see how the Peugeot crew got worried about the crash too. It shows that even though they compete for different companies, there's a true friendship outside the races or where someone gets in trouble.
ursuss100 1 month ago
i bet his head was spinning for a long time after that crash
jabooper 1 month ago
A lotta OMG's goin on there....
irelandbloke 1 month ago
is it 3 men commentating or 2 men and 1 woman?
thornrev 2 months ago
I bet them photographers shit themself's then the car fliped
Nitroracer1320 2 months ago
Auto Racing.....THE ONLY REAL SPORT!
Glad no one was hurt.
PneumaticTire 2 months ago
fuck you ferrari ! they can be legends on the track in past but now are slow shits wich only can fuck of other cars not to win a race !!!
Ban a fucking ferrari from Le Mans Series !
stanchomarinov 2 months ago
@stanchomarinov - Geez they're running in another class.
Agremont 1 month ago
wow, its amazing to think his only injury was a graze- from where he scratched himself on a peice of broken carbon fibre as he climbed from the wreckage! Was at la sarthe when this happened, the spectators reactions were priceless!
LeMansFan1003 2 months ago
Some people actually got hit with debris. You can see it if you look closely, over and over again.
tordern22 2 months ago
Wondering why we only see an on board view from the number 1 Audi?? Surely mcnish had a camera in his car aswell so why have we never seen the footage???
rayzor1888 2 months ago
Weird to have a lady commentating, lol. Obviously she must have a motor sport background, but still.
AdamAus85 2 months ago
@AdamAus85 She is a racing driver.
leighogorman 2 months ago
man if R18 exploded it would have been a 1955 disaster once again...goodness me
defaultoasis 2 months ago
What track is this?
Lamboman1016 2 months ago
@Lamboman1016 circuit de la sarthe
780Motorsports 2 months ago 4
I'm just glad nobody got seriously hurt/killed. That was one major smash.
jboweruk 2 months ago
has anyone noticed that if Audi didn't go with the close cockpit this year, McNish would be dead? talk about timing by Audi
24JGallday 2 months ago
Spectacular crash
Gurksallad10 2 months ago
Looks like an obvious place for catchfencing...
ursuss100 2 months ago 2
Germany is the shit !
sweetypie000 3 months ago
Look at the guy in the light blue vest at 2:33. A tire is flying up in the air about to come down on his head and he don't have the slightest idea. He's looking off in the other direction. I finally hits the ground just a few feet away. C'mon, man, you got to pay attention.
RRaquello 3 months ago
A woman commentator? "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god". Thanks love, that was really helpful commentating.
mattissotrendy 3 months ago
thanks for audi´s safety in this situation...
actionfigureonearth 3 months ago
Whoa..at least the 458 Italia's body still in good shape O_O .
hashrulsubzero 3 months ago
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I think just one "Oh my God!" would have been more than sufficient.
wks1978 3 months ago
@bonsema1 he had no choise otherwise the Audis would have done a redbull
AstonDBS90 3 months ago
get that bitch to make some tea.........
mmmbilly 3 months ago
As long as the person is alive that is all it matters. The machine is re-buildable :)
monishdragon 3 months ago
allan mcnish in fact pulled a very very foolish move there...
bonsema1 3 months ago
That looked like it hurt, gotta knock the wind outta you
badman2504 3 months ago
Freeze frame at 2:23 if that car would have gone 1 foot higher it would have cleared the wall and hit the cameramen, they are lucky.
delta6326 3 months ago
2:25 crap your pants gentelman.
singularitytime 3 months ago
its a miracle that noone of the marshalls and cameramans got injured from debrees
MisteriesOfTheSpace 3 months ago
McNish has always been a suicide
nicolaz1357 3 months ago
Who is the woman commentating alongside Ben Edwards?
UsonianAC 3 months ago
@UsonianAC Firstly i believe its Martin Haven ;) and its Liz Halliday
780Motorsports 3 months ago 11
@780Motorsports Yes, it's Liz Halliday. I knew one of the commentators sounded like an American woman.
UsonianAC 3 months ago
ferrari 2 x 0 audi!!
diegoak74 4 months ago
almost had their cappas detated!
worldskater36 4 months ago
looked like a bit of a knob move.... Nowhere to undertake...
ArlenNess2 4 months ago
I think Le Mans 2011 was like 1993 in F1. Two miracles, everybody is ok. But next year, Audi should change the visibility of the driver in R18 cockpit. I don't want of a new Imola 1994.
fdlmotorsports 4 months ago
@fdlmotorsports very well said. that weekend in 94 was just the complete opposite of 93.
MBPtheFirst 4 months ago
@fdlmotorsports i dont think the visibility of the audi was a problem, it was the backmarker not checking his mirrors or observing the blue flags and maintaining his line, still its just one of those things that happens in racing, however i do think the in 2011 the cars are far far safer than in f1 in 1993
kirmy1 4 months ago
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fdlmotorsports 4 months ago
I still squirm for the photogrpahers/marshalls who were inches from a face full of car
CATZ9002 4 months ago
i want to see the crash from the photographers view that almost got hit.
dbzsongokuss3 4 months ago 7
poor guy who crashed... poor audi... poor race track...
14jimik1 4 months ago
these are the times when you sit back and think why they say motor sport is the most dangerous sport, R.I.P Dan Wheldon.
benzcars 4 months ago
00:04 ahahaha look at the reported running away from the wheel XD
NOXXism 4 months ago
The woman who commentated on this was the most fucking annoying commentator I've ever heard.
24jakenathan 4 months ago
im hoping to be one day a le mans racer, and if this happens to i would say thank you god for saving my life , thank you for giving me a second chance of life, and my pant would have been full of shi..
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TheBuckers2000 5 months ago
from this it looks like McNish would never have made the turn, way too much speed.
mmmbilly 5 months ago
the forgot about the ferrari ^^
Goldie919 5 months ago
I still cannot BELIEVE how lucky those people on the sidelines were, the way the car teetered on the top of the barrier. If it'd gone over they'd be dead. No idea how no one was killed in this.
HuDaFuK 5 months ago 27
@HuDaFuK One of the photographers dives for the ground and where he was gets showered in carbon. Stunning luck for none of them to get hit by debris too.
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@HuDaFuK Agreed, the amount of people there it's unbelievable that the wheel that flew off didn't maul anybody to death.
TupacX2Pak 1 month ago
The cause of the two Audis crashing are the slower cars
BubbaWatsonfan15 5 months ago
typical audi driver up your back end on the motorway :D
jellyzRL 5 months ago
Im not even a German and i love German Cars! I drive a Q7 TDi!
MichaelMellijor 5 months ago 2
Fuck audis and anybody that likes them =)
S55amgDriver 5 months ago in playlist Motorsports Crashes 2011
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dstaplet01 5 months ago
0:04 - its funny how that photographer is running for his life being chased by a wheel :D
Rufficopter 6 months ago
Oh my goodness stupid annoying female commentator "OOOOOH MY GOD"
Shut up.
TheHoustonRocket 6 months ago 2
just imagine if that other car was one of the corvette's there will be a tsunami of total hatred towards the Americans from across the pond not that they already hate uncle sam from the get go and surely will get blame 100% on this matter. thanks goodness its one of the ferrari's
MrToits 6 months ago
the problem is not different classes racing at the same time. As much as i respect Alan Macnish and what he has done for Porsche and what a great driver he is. wtf is he doing driving that hard when he is less then an hour 24 hour race
MrPorsche91730 6 months ago 2
@MrPorsche91730 i have sat in the audi r18 at a car showing and you can BARELY see over the wheel wells. he wouldnt have been able to see the ferrari. Try laying down in your bathtub. its sort of like that
mrtitsmigee 6 months ago
@mrtitsmigee i never said anything about him not being able to see the ferrari. i said wtf is he doing driving that hard less then an hour into a 24 hour race. i think he was just being careless and to agressive. a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead. and seeing how much faster the audi tdi is to a ferrari he should of wated for a better passing oppurnity
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@MrPorsche91730 i never said anything about him not being able to see the ferrari. i said wtf is he doing driving that hard less then an hour into a 24 hour race. i think he was just being careless and to agressive. a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead. and seeing how much faster the audi tdi is to a ferrari he should of wated for a better passing oppurnity
MrPorsche91730 6 months ago
@mrtitsmigee so you are saying the ferrari is still invisible no matter how far ahead it was? 20 car lenghts or 2? thats pure bs. he knew it was there. he might of not known exactly where the ferrari was, he might of lost sight of it when it was1 to 5 car lenghts ahead, but he knew it was there, if you get what im sayin. and like i said a race car driver needs to think a couple of turns ahead, and you still dont understand the fact he is driving to hard to early.
MrPorsche91730 6 months ago
lol ferraris always seem to be wrecking the audis
EmElJeee 6 months ago
I want my house built out of that car. I live in hurricane territory.
BornAgain133 6 months ago
McNish's fault
monjimike 6 months ago
Buy Audis! Good for your safety and good for our german economy ;D
mcrubar 6 months ago 66
@mcrubar
my neighbor can agree with you. his A6 was on a head on collision course with a drunk driver on the highway. he stopped, and the drunk driver hit him doing 85. he had no injuries
SRQshark 6 months ago
@mcrubar
85 mph i meant to say. just over 130 km/h
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AndrewNW3 6 months ago
The debate about having different car classes in the same race will go on and on, but if the Ferrari had just come out of the pits, not yet up to race pace and with one Audi rampaging towards it that it can ALREADY see, what the f.., sorry, what the hell was it doing going for the racing line to the apex?
Axpoet 7 months ago
Cause of the FUCKING FERRARI.
FlyingBoxHead 7 months ago
thumbs up to engineers
osmosisberbalik 7 months ago
Boring.
johnthetrevor 7 months ago
@19del67 i have to agree, he might have had a chance in the r15 or r10. but have that happend in the r8 he would have died
heinedenstore 7 months ago
Mc Nish you have to stop your carrere in Audi's team, i cannot excuse your attitude.... Le Mans is an endurance race....
zgeninaway 7 months ago
It isn't a testament. It is 2011 motorsport. Why do people say that. People could get out 5 years ago with a bit more bruising that McNish. I hate it when people say that.
Racecarwrecks 7 months ago
Half a mile faster, or haf
SDLRob 7 months ago
The cameraman is fuckin Epic
XsniperswedenX 7 months ago
The rest of the world must learn from Imola circuit now, its's the safest one with CEA technics that can remove a car from a track in 30 seconds and got all the angles fully protected.
ProGamingZon3 8 months ago
@ProGamingZon3 maybe so, however imola is now at days a relative slow track and they could not clean up THAT mess and fix the track in 30 min or 45 min for that matter
heinedenstore 7 months ago
omg i cannot believe he walk away from that wow
nascarnate3 8 months ago
@ 2:27 you can see a Photographer getting hit by a piece of the car and dropping a $5,000 + lens right on the front of it, a lot of collateral damage.
mteg9 8 months ago
@mteg9 Fortunatelly we got life garancies on those lens >_> cause they can hit 15k euros
ProGamingZon3 8 months ago
@mteg9 There are at least two of them; one is wearing a red shirt with a blue vest over it (he drops a big white Canon lens) and the other is wearing an orange vest (he drops a big black lens which looks like a Nikon 200-400).
Many of these are full time but lot of these guys are only part time photographers. They do a good job but they have to buy their own gear. I have done work like this and the way you get paid, if you're lucky you can pay off your gear in a few years. Poor bastards.
Camerameister 7 months ago
The bike wins!
izzelrizzel 8 months ago
they need catch fencing!!
Rickrolled8024 8 months ago
im buying an audi!
iragekao 8 months ago 30
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Axpoet 7 months ago
@iragekao what, so the wheels come off from a mild sideswipe? Vorsprung durch technik, my ar$e ))) Mind you, Hannu Mikkola's one stayed on all fours even when he drove into Finnish pine trees, perhaps Ingolstadt just screwed them together better in the '80s...
Axpoet 7 months ago
OH MY GOD!!!!
milkshaker74 8 months ago
The dude in orange is pretty lucky at 2:23!
coshr 8 months ago
If that was an Audi R10 of a few years ago he'd have been history.
b4d69 8 months ago
@b4d69 maybe, i think he would have made it however he would have been injuried
heinedenstore 7 months ago
Wow how scary was that!!! Shows how strong the cars are though as Mcnish walked away. Must have been terrifying for the people behind that wall as well..
edd55r 8 months ago
Just before the main impact, McNish hit a different bit of tyre wall that got him slightly airborne and made the main impact so spectacular. If that wall had been even and didn't have that bit pushed forward, the car wouldn't have rolled. You can see it on the far right at 1:30.
Mikeado66 8 months ago
and btw what is her accent -australian, english or american.. confusing ?
but good on her..
pvtdangles 8 months ago
whats up with the blasphemy.. I mean i might be as religious as a tube of lube but i can appreciate a complete lack of professionalism in a token female commentator.
pvtdangles 8 months ago
@pvtdangles Shes not a 'token' female commentator, shes a professional racecar driver who knows the driver of the car, she just saw smashed to bits, very well!!! A fairly normal reaction, shes not a professional commentator, shes there for her....wait for it.......racing knowledge!
BODKillinator 8 months ago
@pvtdangles did you really need to comment on that I thought it was a pretty normal reaction to a horrific crash that thankfully nobody got hurt in. You must be the token dickhead in the comments section!!
edd55r 8 months ago
@edd55r how'd you guess
pvtdangles 7 months ago
@aydx0001 Dale Earnhardt died because he didn't have all the safety features that are in the cars now
soccer12811 8 months ago
@soccer12811 Don't you mean that Dale Earnhardt died because he forgot his safety when going 200mph. But even without a HANS really that was a minor shunt.
Racecarwrecks 7 months ago
@Racecarwrecks there is a big diffrence in this accident and ands dales accident. alan hit rear on and dale head on, rear on your head would hit the the seat, head on, you could break you neck (without hans that is)
heinedenstore 7 months ago
@heinedenstore I never said it was similar, I just said that NASCAR officials wait for someone to die and then improve their safety, unlike Britain, France, Belgium (even though it usually is a death) and Germany. There are at least 3 accidents which should've made the HANS device mandatory and if you want I'll make a video and post it up to prove this. It is stupid to not make HANS mandatory and add SAFER barriers when Ernie Irvan crashes in '94 but do when Earnhardt dies in '01.
Racecarwrecks 7 months ago
Wow. Did Audi crash both their R18s?
bandman232 8 months ago
@bandman232 2 of their 3 R18s, the 3rd won the race.
BODKillinator 8 months ago
@BODKillinator Ah Thanks
bandman232 8 months ago
haha isnt the sand trap supposed to stop cars? McNish just slid across it
andrewejc 8 months ago
People need to quit bitching about Liz Halliday commenting on the race, shes afar better racecar driver than most of us could wish to be and a 100x more qualified to commentate than the keyboard jockeys mocking her
BODKillinator 8 months ago
@BODKillinator Well said
nufcdazzla 8 months ago
@BODKillinator to be honest i found it refreshing that someone had a more human view of such a gigantic accident. i applaud her for showing her emotion. i was doing the same fucking thing and i have no issue with it whatsoever.
penske13 7 months ago
camera man running away from tire
"ahhhh its after me!!!"
jeffg24LT21 8 months ago
Nearly pooped myself when me and my mate saw the impact and debris flying into the air. Thought we may end up getting hit by a wheel - Phew!
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jaxxxi 8 months ago
Stupid female commentator. Politically correct appointment no doubt. Hope we never have to suffer her again.
NOSRAB66 8 months ago
@NOSRAB66 Bollocks. Is it "politically correct" to try to attract female viewers or should motorsport be an exclusively male domain? How can you grow a sport and an audience if you don't make entreaties to new markets?
That's the trouble with reductivist thinking; you end up throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Camerameister 7 months ago
That woman is the worst commentator I have ever heard.
What a massive crash.
There are half a dozen people over the wall there that are lucky to be alive!
jb355 8 months ago
Seeing crashes like this and notably Zanardi's and the drivers surviving makes me wonder why on Earth, such a mundane crash kills Dale Earnhardt.
aydx0001 8 months ago
He was very, very , very lucky!!! Thanks God the new racing car technology saved his life and everyone around!
josebvliborio 8 months ago
it was the wheel folding under the car that stopped it going any further over the wall, quite haunting hearing the horror in the commentators voices when they see this happen
Elitewarfare3 8 months ago
One of the bottom lines here is that Allan McNish survived this and will continue to be with us for some time. Let's not lose sight of that. He has become a real staple in road racing. I have my own view on this accident, but I'm grateful we haven't lost another (champion)...
rmartin930 8 months ago
@rmartin930 He probably had the best chance of anyone there, strapped into a heavily reinforced cockpit with all sorts of safety devices for just such an occasion. That crash could quite easily have killed several photographers who were just doing their jobs...
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Steven30493 8 months ago
Nobody seems to be commenting on the new rear fin, which I think may have saved a few lives here. Like Bouchut at Eau Rouge in the 1000km this year in his Lola, I mean the car starts lifting as he's spewing sideways across the gravel. Without that fin it would likely have got air and started rolling before it reached the barrier and gone over it....THAT would have been terrible.
Also, that woman commentator almost ruined Le Mans for me this year. Everything with her sounded like soap opera.
csykes23 8 months ago
To all those, who continue to harp on who was "at fault" and how McNish "probably didn't see the Ferrari..." Be assured...as the driver of a prototype car, behind another prototype, you CAN see a GT car over the top of that car in front of you; and, in this case, there was the advantage of having just come over the rise, which allowed a gaining advantage in this regard. McNish simply got a little carried away here.
rmartin930 8 months ago
Anthony Beltoise doubt that he even saw the blue flag, and saw the Audi's in front of him. but what ever Allen McNish was thinking from his mind, that was suposed to be his main key role of the game.
Which the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) should of took place investigating from the horrifiing crash which the Ferrari #58 again took out #1 audi R18 Mike Rockenfeller onboard that night, was even more severe and fright tragicing. moments as Mike Rockenfeller survives walking.
twingripriot 8 months ago